Brains, Minds, and Texts A Review of Mark Turner's The Literary Mind by Alan Richardson Mark Turner, The Literary Mind. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. viii, 187 pp. (Review 20 : 39-48) When the intellectual history of the late twentieth century is written, Anglophone literary theory and criticism will probably come in for a wry footnote or two. Scholars of the future age may well find ...

THE NARRATIVE ACT: WITTGENSTEIN AND NARRATOLOGY Henry McDonald ABSTRACT This essay uses the late work of Ludwig Wittgenstein to reformulate the traditional distinction between story and narrative discourse, or diegetic and extra-diegetic levels of narrative, as a distinction between story and narrative act. In describing the transformations performed by the narrative act, the author elaborates ...